Whirl

At this point in 1992, I wanted to go back to basic colors of lemon yellow, magenta and turquoise. I glazed the colors over one another in a spiral. My goal was for a simpler painting in which I just built up my colors.


acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Starry Yellow

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Wavy Green

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Shredded Aqua

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Oozy Blue

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Chopped Purple

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Curly Pink

In college I had used molding paste in one of my acrylic paintings. In the early 90s I decided to revisit using molding paste in painting. I wanted to take the experiment much further. Here is one of the paintings from a series.

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Shooters

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Wave

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Projectiles

In 1991, as the events of Dessert Storm unfolded on television, I painted this piece. Someone from Chicago bought it a few years ago. This is cropped. The original is longer.

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Squiggle

In the fall of 1991, I was working on a group of paintings that just were not going very well. I was frustrated with the limits of acrylic paint. It wasn't until I painted over my original images that these paintings began to click. This is the first of the bunch.

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"

Greenscape

acrylic on canvas, 18" x 36"